Acts 17:24-31

24 "¹The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is ²Lord of heaven and earth, does not ³dwell in temples made with hands;

25 nor is He served by human hands, ⁴as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things;

26 and ⁵He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having ⁶determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation,

27 that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, ⁷though * He is not far from each one of us;

28 for ⁸in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, 'For we also are His children.'

29 "Being then the children of God, we ⁹ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man.

30 "Therefore having ¹⁰overlooked ¹¹the times of ignorance, God is ¹²now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent,

31 because He has fixed ¹³a day in which ¹⁴He will judge ¹⁵the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has ¹⁶appointed, having furnished proof to all men by ¹⁷raising Him from the dead."

Cross References

• 1. Isaiah 42:5; Acts 14:15
• 2. Deuteronomy 10:14; Psalms 115:16; Matthew 11:25
• 3. 1 Kings 8:27; Acts 7:48
• 4. Job 22:2; Psalms 50:10-12
• 5. Malachi 2:10
• 6. Deuteronomy 32:8; Job 12:23
• 7. Deuteronomy 4:7; Jeremiah 23:23; Acts 14:17
• 8. Job 12:10; Daniel 5:23
• 9. Isaiah 40:18f; Romans 1:23
• 10. Acts 14:16; Romans 3:25
• 11. Acts 17:23
• 12. Luke 24:47; Acts 26:20; Titus 2:11
• 13. Matthew 10:15
• 14. Psalms 9:8; Psalms 96:13; Psalms 98:9; John 5:22, 27; Acts 10:42
• 15. Matthew 24:14; Acts 17:6
• 16. Luke 22:22
• 17. Acts 2:24

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "are"
• [b]. Lit "the inhabited earth"
• [c]. Lit "by" or "in"
• [d]. Or "when He raised"